From: [mailto]eh.net-review@eh.net[/mailto]Published by EH.NET (October 2007)
Ken Fones-Wolf, Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxviii + 236 pp. $25 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-252-07371-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Janet Irons, Department of History, Political Science, and Economics, Lock Haven University.
Smith, Angel: Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction. Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923 (= International Studies in Social History 8). New York: Berghahn Books 2007. ISBN 1-84545-176-7; 405 S.; $ 89.95.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Gemma Rubí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
E-Mail: [mailto]gemmarubi@telefonica.net[/mailto]
Burgess, Glenn; Festenstein, Matthew (Hrsg.): English Radicalism, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007. ISBN 052180017X; 381 S.; EUR 84,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Robert Friedeburg, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam
E-Mail: [mailto]vonfriedeburg@fhk.eur.nl[/mailto]
Ertz, Simon: Zwangsarbeit im stalinistischen Lagersystem. Eine Untersuchung der Methoden, Strategien und Ziele ihrer Ausnutzung am Beispiel Norilsk, 1935-1953 (= Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen 31).Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2006. ISBN 3-428-11863-4; brosch.; 273 S.; EUR 48,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Klaus Gestwa, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
E-Mail: [mailto]klaus.gestwa@uni-tuebingen.de[/mailto]
From: Lucien Van Der Walt, [mailto]Lucien.VanDerWalt@wits.ac.za[/mailto]
African Studies Volume 66, Issue 2 & 3, August 2007
Routledge: Taylor and Francis
[url]http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00020184.asp[/url]
Special issue: "Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on Southern African Labour History"
Edited by Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien Van Der Walt
Call for Papers on Ottoman and Republican Turkish Labour History
Supplement to the International Review of Social History (2009)
Editors: Touraj Atabaki and Gavin Brockett
The Working Class Movement Library is delighted to announce that its application for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant has been successful. The Fund has awarded £313,000 to the Library over the next three years for its project 'The Past Meets the Present: a History of Working Lives'.
From: David Renton, [mailto]david.renton@sunderland.ac.uk[/mailto]
Apologies for the mass emailing, but I wanted to pass on the details of an event which will take place this February: a conference to mark 70 years since the publication of CLR James' book The Black Jacobins. Keynote speakers will include Darcus Howe, Selma James, Weyman Bennett, Bill Schwarz and Marika Sherwood.
FES Library publishes inventory on Trotskyism archive (Hermann Weber collection)
Bärhausen, Anne
Das Trotzkismus-Archiv (Sammlung Hermann Weber) in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : ein Bestandsverzeichnis / bearb. von Anne Bärhausen und Gabriele Rose. - Bonn, 2007. - 228 S. : Ill.. - (Veröffentlichungen der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; 19) ISBN 978-3-89892-779-6
Call for Essay Contributions -- The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present
This eight-volume, 5,000-page, peer-reviewed work, to be published by Blackwell next year is intended to become “the definitive reference work on the role of popular agency in transforming the world in which we live.”
We are in the process of dramatically expanding the Encyclopedia’s coverage of anarchism. To that end, we are soliciting essay contributions on the topics listed below.
